Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1286 1258. Blood Saint

"Come with me."

Mark tilted his head at Lan, motioning for him to follow him.

The two men's boots stepped onto the stone steps, making a "clacking" sound as the hard soles collided.

The gate of the research hall is quite large. It does not look like a combination of a research institute and a hospital, but more like a cathedral.

But in Yanan, a city that integrates politics, education, research and medicine, there is nothing wrong with this characteristic.

Mark led Lan up the steps and into the front door, where he placed his large suitcase against the wall in the porch.

He shook his hands slightly without leaving any trace.

He spent the whole afternoon carrying boxes and guiding strangers to familiarize themselves with the main streets of Yharnam. Although he was already a church hunter, his fingers still ached.

After putting the suitcase away, he led Lan En inside.

The lighting in the research hall is very poor, and although there are many kerosene lamps, the range of a single lamp is not ideal.

Therefore, the interior of the entire large building became dark with occasional dim spots of light.

The lighting problem makes the numerous bookshelves and books here lose their intellectual tranquility and instead appear eerie.

And a strange smell filled the entire space. It was hard to tell whether it was the smell of a natural medicine? Or the smell of a preparation extracted by chemical means? Or the smell of some kind of body fluid in a living organism?
In short, this strange mixture of flavors is very profound.
The gloomy atmosphere of the place made Lan En frown.

If a hospital is really decorated in this style, it would be because the patients are too optimistic during the treatment process.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a sunken square pool on the first floor of the research hall.

But there was no water in the fountain sculpture in the middle, and the water in the pool had long dried up.

There were many people coming and going, and most of them were busy. Most of them were clergymen wearing uniforms similar to Mark's, and they seemed to be responsible for the operation of this research hall and the research.

A small number of them were wearing casual clothes, and they should be servants.

"This is the forefront of our research on gray blood disease." Mark said as he led Lan through the crowd. "But because of this, the management method is different from those clinic-style medical treatment centers."

Mark pointed to the upper level of the research hall with a slight movement.

Lan En also looked up.

A descendant of Sumeru, wearing a gray coat, about the same size as him, with a face as pale as death, was standing at the top of the stairs holding a cane and a lantern.

Apparently, he is acting as a guard.

"You can't move around freely here like in other medical institutions, but since this is your request, I just hope you can be careful and don't make any mistakes."

"These descendants of Sumeru only recognize a few high-ranking church officials or certain tokens. They are very rigid. Don't expect them to be humane."

As he spoke, Mark seemed to search among the busy people and found his target, so he simply took Lan En and passed by several people.

"Adeline!"

Mark raised his hand and increased the volume slightly, causing the target person not far away to turn his head.

She was a woman with blonde hair, wearing a uniform not dissimilar to that of the clergy of the Healing Church.

But she was obviously not a clergyman because she didn't have those gloomy and deep feelings.

Before she turned her head, she seemed to be giving directions to a servant who was confused by the spiral staircase up and down the research hall.

"mark?"

Adeline's voice was full of confusion and surprise, and she obviously didn't expect Mark to come to her.

She briefly repeated the route to the lost people around her before turning around and walking towards Mark and Lan.

"Why did you come to see me? What's the matter?"

Adeline seemed very cheerful, as if she was very happy to be asked to do something by someone, while Mark was the same as always.

"I think you're probably the only one here who's in the mood to help someone who has nothing to do with you, Adeline."

He briefly talked about Lan's situation and extended his hand to introduce the tall man behind him who was looking around the research hall.

"Outsider, do you want to become a hunter in Yharnam?"

After hearing the situation, Adeline looked at Lan and nodded repeatedly, with a bright smile on her face.

This smile was so brilliant that it was almost dazzling in Yharnam.

"Thank you, Mark! You thought of asking me for help when you needed it. Don't worry, I will take this gentleman to learn about our Healing Church."

"When the time comes, he will definitely join us!"

Mark nodded calmly, just like Henrik. Although he came to ask for help, his expression and demeanor did not make people feel that they had a deep friendship.

Mark put on the hood on the back of his uniform, prepared to leave the research hall, and carried his suitcase to the church hunter's housing.

But when he turned around and walked to the pool in the research hall, he seemed to remember something, and came back with a "thump thump" on the stone floor and stood in front of Adeline.

"He has only been in Yharnam for a few days. Please don't let him walk too far alone. He might get lost."

He spoke to Adeline seriously and carefully.

After he finished speaking, he held the brim of his hat and nodded slightly to Lan with a calm face. "Goodbye, Lan. I hope you can see what you want to see here."

Then, without waiting for Lan En's response, he turned around and left without any hesitation.

The identical clergy uniforms gradually blended into the crowd and became unrecognizable.

Only Lan En could recognize that underneath the equally gloomy uniform robe, he could indeed feel Mark's enthusiasm and helpfulness beneath his cold appearance.

And Adeline looked very happy.

"Hello!" She said to Lan En excitedly, "I am Adeline, the Blood Saint of the Healing Church. You want to learn about the Healing Church's philosophy and medical technology, right?"

"That's great! I can explain it to you slowly, and you will definitely understand us. Besides, we are in need of manpower right now."

Unlike the clergy in the research hall, Adeline greeted Lan with a smile.

Among the clergy who all had a similarly cold appearance as Mark, this joyful smile was very different.

The Blood Saint. The Demon Hunter asked the Mentos in his mind to retrieve the information.

That was the basic information he got from chatting over dinner at Gascoigne's house, and he subsequently explored and revised it on his own.

The sacred blood of the Yharnam Healing Church comes from the blood of the ancient gods, but the blood from the corpses of the ancient gods is limited and too strong.

Therefore, in order to possess this blood for a long time, the Healing Church will select qualified women as the "Blood Saints".

Some sacred blood is injected into their bodies as an inducement, and then through systematic training and cultivation, the quality of their blood is greatly improved.

Become a new source of sacred blood.

"But I think you seem different from the others."

Lan En tilted his head and spoke softly.

"Mark came to you for help, but you were so happy to thank him that I was a little confused."

"I just want to help others and the church." Adeline pursed her lips and apologized awkwardly, "Does this bother you?"

"No." The demon hunter scratched his head with his fingers. "I don't know how other people in Yharnam feel, but it makes me feel good to be able to get help here."

"Oh, that's great!" Adeline clasped her hands together in front of her chest, looking relieved.

The strange smell of medicine wafted through the research hall.

Lan En noticed that the smell would suddenly become stronger every time they passed a few cabinets.

In the cabinets against the wall were large glass bottles filled with liquids containing some strange and messy biological organs.

Even with Lan En's knowledge of biology, there were many things that he couldn't tell what organs they came from.

Is it some kind of species unique to Yharnam that is not within his knowledge system, or is it a normal organ that has been completely deformed to the point of being unrecognizable for some reason?

Lan En actually already had these two guesses in his mind.

“If you want to deeply treat life, you must first deeply study life.”

Adeline also noticed that Lann did not try to hide his actions, and pointed at the cabinets he passed by and spoke.

"It may seem strange, but the clergy say that this is a necessary process for studying life. It is valuable knowledge!"

Some clergymen with wooden faces hurried past the two men, their indifference like a mask that they could not take off.

Adeline smiled and nodded at each of them, but received no response from any of them.

It seems that these clergymen only have their own destinations, or the books and notebooks in their hands in their eyes.

To be honest, compared to the term "clergy", Lan En sees these people from the Healing Church as more like "scholars".

They don't believe in anything, they just study something.

“I can understand the meaning of anatomical and biological samples.”

While Lan En used his observation skills and the recording function of Mentos to absorb various information and intelligence in the research hall, he spoke fluently and naturally with Adeline.

"These gray-white tissues are taken from patients with gray blood disease?"

When passing by a cupboard, Lan stopped and tilted his head towards the cupboard to signal Adeline.

The Blood Saint nodded and said seriously, "Because the blood has turned gray, the tissues full of capillaries have also been stained gray-white. These organs are evidence that gray blood disease has progressed to a deeper level."

After saying that, she smiled embarrassedly.

"This is what the clergy told me. I don't really understand it, I just read it."

"But you are so perceptive, do you also understand medical matters?"

Lan En just laughed softly and didn't say anything.

However, he only looked deeply at the 'organs of severe gray blood disease patients' in the glass bottle, and then looked away as if nothing had happened.

Adeline continued to take Lan En to wander around the first floor of the research hall, and introduced him to the "healing church in her mind", hoping that this foreign hunter could join the church when it was in need of manpower.

(End of this chapter)